Female authorship trends in the field of colorectal surgery: A retrospective bibliometric study

作者全名："He, Shengliang; Gong, Jianping"

作者地址："[He, Shengliang; Gong, Jianping] Chongqing Med Univ, Affiliated Hosp 2, Gen Surg Dept, Chongqing, Peoples R China; [Gong, Jianping] 288 Tianwen Ave, Chongqing 400061, Peoples R China"

通信作者："Gong, JP (通讯作者)，288 Tianwen Ave, Chongqing 400061, Peoples R China."

来源：HELIYON

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WOS号：WOS:001042306800001

JCR分区：Q1

影响因子：3.4

年份：2023

卷号：9

期号：6

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文献类型：Article

关键词：Colorectal surgery; Authorship; Gender disparity; Health care education

摘要："Background: Gender disparity and hidden discrimination remained in the surgical subspecialties. This study aimed to explore the authorship gender composition in four high-impact colorectal surgery journals over the past two decades. Method: This cross-sectional study queried the Web of Science Core Collection database and PubMed (MEDLINE) for articles published in four high-impact colorectal surgery specialty jour-nals between 2000 and 2021 (Database accessed at July 2022). Extracted data included authors' full names, institutions, year of publication and total citation numbers. Authors' genders were assigned via gendrize.io, a third-party name predictor tool. Results: 100,325 authorship records were included in the final analysis. 21.8% of writers were identified as female, an increase from 11.4% (95% CI, 9.4%-13.3%) in 2000 to 26.5% (95% CI, 25.6%-27.4%) in 2021. Female authorship has risen in all authorship types, but women physi-cians were less likely to be the last authors than the first (OR, 0.63; 95%CI, 0.6-0.67) or middle authors (OR, 0.57; 95%CI, 0.55-0.60). Female authorship has also increased substantially in different document types, but female authorships were less likely in editorials than original ar-ticles (OR, 0.76; 95%CI, 0.7-0.83) and reviews (OR, 0.83; 95%CI, 0.74-0.94). Compared with male physicians, females were more likely to author in publications with reportable funding, either as first authors (OR, 1.46; 95%CI, 1.12-1.78) or last authors (OR, 1.51; 95%CI, 1.22-1.89). Authorship varied geographically, and countries with the highest female authorship percentage were mainly in Europe and North America. Conclusion: Female authorship has grown substantially in colorectal surgery literature. However, female physicians were still underrepresented and less likely to assume senior or leading authorship roles."

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